Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the MindThe author has omitted referring to the books from which he has obtained some of his facts. His reason for doing so was, when he began to collect them, he did not expect to publish them, and of course did not mark the volumes and pages from which they were extracted. Since he formed that design, he has faithfully preserved references to them both. He has suppressed them, only be cause their partial publication would have destroy cd the uniformity of the work. He commits his imperfect labours, now before the reader, to his fellow citizens, with a hope that they may serve as a supplement to materials already collected, from which a system of principles may be formed that shall lead to general success in the treatment of the diseases of the mind. Experience has ex hansted herself in abortive efforts for that purpose, and should the following attempt to co-operate with her by principles be alike unsuccessful, it must be ascribed to their being erroneous, for the author believes those diseases can be brought un. Der the dominion of medicine, only by just theo ries of their seats and proximate cause.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.